Mallory Edens, the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks billionaire co-owner Wes Edens, shut down an internet troll who attempted to insult her over her appearance at the 2026 NBA Draft lottery Sunday.
The model responded to an X post that said she’s “aging fast” since becoming an internet sensation when she represented the Bucks at the 2014 NBA Draft lottery in New York.
“Remember when she was a smokeshow and the talk of the draft lottery when she first appeared,” the X user posted.
Edens, who reposted the message, responded: “The first time I did the lottery, I was in high school. I had turned 18 a few weeks beforehand and every single one of the photos of me in a bikini that went viral on the internet in the aftermath were taken when I was 15 or 16 years old. Of course I have aged – I was a child.
“I find it so strange that women are asked to delay womanhood as long as possible in favor of some kind of eternal girlhood. I don’t want to be a girl, I don’t aspire to look like a teenager. I am very happy to be a woman. If your beauty standard for me is to look like a child that’s your problem but not mine. This is not the insult that you think it is.”
Edens, who was 18 when she was appeared on stage at the 2014 draft lottery, has been open about the night that changed her life.
During a December appearance on the “Unlike Me” podcast, Edens explained lasting effect harmful comments online had on her — and how the aftermath made her “so protective” of herself.
“I actually think people actually don’t know that much about me and I think that the biggest misconception — is just that they don’t know that much about me,” Edens said. “I went really viral on the internet at a really young age and it put me in this place where I felt so protective of myself because the things people were saying online about me at that time felt so harmful.
“And I don’t know that I’ve ever if really left that protective casing. So, I think the misconception is just I don’t think people know me that well online.”
Edens represented the Bucks at Sunday’s draft lottery, as the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing federal prosecutors, that her father Wes he is the target of an alleged $1 billion extortion plot by China-born entrepreneur Changli “Sophia” Luo, with whom he had a brief sexual relationship.
Her presence did not help the Bucks, who will pick 10th.
Edens tends to keep her life private, despite being the daughter of a billionaire NBA owner.
She has sat courtside at Bucks games next to former four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, and was rumored to be dating the quarterback in 2023.
It was never confirmed, and Rogers married his wife Brittani last year.
Edens founded Little Ray Media, a production company based in Los Angeles with a mission to tell stories by and about women and girls.
